I was relieved to read that President Obama echoed what every normal person thought after hearing about the “photo-op flyover” in Manhattan earlier this week.
From a news report yesterday:
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said Wednesday a photo-op featuring the presidential jet flying over the Manhattan skyline was as “stupid a thing to do as one could dream up.”
During an interview on Air Force One, Gibbs said if President Obama had had “any knowledge of the stupid idea to go take pictures of the plane in New York, I can assure you that wouldn’t have happened.”
The ill-conceived flight mission, which aimed to captured a photo of an Air Force One backup plane with the Statue of Liberty in the background, sent thousands of New Yorkers running for their lives with memories of the Sept 11., 2001, terrorist attacks on their minds — and sent officials in Washington, D.C., running for political cover.
In an interview with MSNBC later in the day, Gibbs said, “This was a dumb idea on just about every level that you want to analyze it on. “I would certainly agree with that. The president would agree with that.
“He was furious when we told him about it and he’s asked that the deputy chief of staff look into how a decision like this got made and to ensure that it never happens again,” he said. “And that’s what we’re doing right now.”
Thank you for being real and saying what we all thought.
